Michigan law calls for an appointment within 30 days of when the vacancy was created. The person appointed will fill the seat until December 2014.

Applications can be pick up available at the Administration Building, 1220 Howard St., must be returned by Monday, Jan. 20.

"Everything must be done by hard copy" and applications can not be submitted by email, board President Patti Sholler-Barber said.

The board will announce Jan. 24 which applicants they want to interview and those interviews will occur at a special board meeting on Jan. 27, she said. The board will make a decision that week on who to appoint.

"We have a very short window to do this," Sholler-Barber said.

Trustees said the process of interviewing applicants and choosing a new member will use the same process as when Duncan was appointed in August.

Five people applied for the position last summer. In addition to Duncan, they were Ken Greschak, director of fund development at Friendship Village; Kate Langan, assistant professor for WMU libraries; Paul Marquardt, a local artist who has a KPS board candidate in 2006, and Iris Salters, former president of the Kalamazoo Education Association and Michigan Education Association.